Review: HTC Aria
The HTC Aria features a nice assortment of messaging features and some great social networking integration to boot. Social networks integrate deeply into the Aria's OS. When you initially setup the phone, you can set up sync options for Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. The official Facebook app comes preloaded, and it lets you check status updates, upload photos and find friends. It offers a nice assortment of features. The phone doesn't include the official Twitter app, and instead uses HTC's Peep. I like the official app better, and it's a free download from the Android App Market. Peep didn't seem reliable with updating my Twitter feed, and it lacks some newer features, like the official Twitter retweet style. It's not bad, but the official app is better.
For email, there's Gmail, and then there's everything else. Gmail obviously gets special attention on this Google Android phone with its own app, which includes support for Gmail labels, easier navigation and other cool features. The regular Mail app can still handle POP3, IMAP4 and Exchange accounts nicely. The same goes for instant messaging. There's a dedicated app for Google Talk, and then a separate app for everything else, including AIM, MSN Messenger and Yahoo messaging. The Gtalk app looks better than the catch-all app for the other three services, but both apps worked just fine for simple IM tasks.
The HTC Messages app works nicely for text and MMS messages. It shows messages in a threaded, conversational format, with avatar pictures for your contacts. MMS messages went out just fine, but the phone had some trouble receiving MMS pictures from my other devices. I got file format errors, even though I was using another HTC Android device.
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